Veruca Salt is pushed onto the garbage chute
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"Veruca Salt is pushed onto the garbage chute" is a pivotal scene from Roald Dahl’s *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* in which the spoiled character Veruca Salt is rejected as a “bad nut” and sent down a trash chute in Willy Wonka’s factory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Veruca Salt (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005 film) | 1 |
| Veruca Salt is pushed onto the garbage chute canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20878848 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Veruca Salt is pushed onto the garbage chute Context triple: [Nut Room, event, Veruca Salt is pushed onto the garbage chute]
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A.
Mrs. Gloop
Mrs. Gloop is the overindulgent and doting mother of Augustus Gloop in Roald Dahl’s novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
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B.
Oompa-Loompas
Oompa-Loompas are the small, whimsical factory workers in Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka stories, known for their synchronized songs and moralizing musical numbers after each child’s misadventure.
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C.
Oogie Pringle
Oogie Pringle is a recurring comic teenage character from the radio and film series "A Date with Judy," typically portrayed as Judy's well-meaning but often bumbling boyfriend.
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D.
Uncle Salty
"Uncle Salty" is a song by American rock band Aerosmith from their 1975 album "Toys in the Attic."
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E.
Scarbo
Scarbo is the notoriously virtuosic, nightmarish scherzo-like movement from Maurice Ravel’s piano suite "Gaspard de la nuit," depicting a menacing goblin.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Veruca Salt is pushed onto the garbage chute Target entity description: "Veruca Salt is pushed onto the garbage chute" is a pivotal scene from Roald Dahl’s *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory* in which the spoiled character Veruca Salt is rejected as a “bad nut” and sent down a trash chute in Willy Wonka’s factory.
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A.
Mrs. Gloop
Mrs. Gloop is the overindulgent and doting mother of Augustus Gloop in Roald Dahl’s novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
-
B.
Oompa-Loompas
Oompa-Loompas are the small, whimsical factory workers in Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka stories, known for their synchronized songs and moralizing musical numbers after each child’s misadventure.
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C.
Oogie Pringle
Oogie Pringle is a recurring comic teenage character from the radio and film series "A Date with Judy," typically portrayed as Judy's well-meaning but often bumbling boyfriend.
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D.
Uncle Salty
"Uncle Salty" is a song by American rock band Aerosmith from their 1975 album "Toys in the Attic."
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E.
Scarbo
Scarbo is the notoriously virtuosic, nightmarish scherzo-like movement from Maurice Ravel’s piano suite "Gaspard de la nuit," depicting a menacing goblin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Mr. Salt (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005 film)
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child
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Veruca Salt (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005 film)
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subject linked to:
Mr. Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005 film)
linked to: Veruca Salt is pushed onto the garbage chute